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    Sometimes, you may also have headaches, cold or sweaty hands and feet, or even feeling overwhelmed or overloaded. Every high school student is affected every day from stress because of grades, family, and the social aspect of school. Many parents will say that once teenagers are out of high school that the stress will begin, but little do they know that teenagers stress about school on a daily basis. Stress is the body’s reaction to harmful situations (Stress Symptoms). When the body feels…

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    Hazards of School-induced Stress Depressed. Anxious. Fearful. Needy. These are all symptoms of students trapped in the vicious cycle, unable to escape school-induced stress. The responsibilities of completing schoolwork constantly consume students of all ages. School is stealing the rank as the number one priority for many teens. This may be seemingly positive, but it has negative effects overall. The stress of homework and the pressure to achieve outstanding grades is causing the good health…

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    depressed mood, diminished attention,reduced arousal, and lower test score(1Understanding Psychology Pg130). Sleep deprivation is known to effects you 're health. Lack of sleep has been shown to contribute to such diseases as heart attacks,asthma,strokes,high blood pressure, and diabetes(Understanding Psychology…

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    integrated into the core of the sport and are still to this day are highly common nickname for teams at the high school, collegiate, and even professional level. However, the extinction of these names from sports is a real possibility and could be coming sooner than imagined if action isn’t taken. Since 2005, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has “warned more than a dozen schools… that they would face sanctions if they…

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    to caring. My freshman year of highschool, was wild and also nervous about being the younger ones in high school. I didn’t care about anything, beside my grades in school. I was a great student in school, I made excellent grades, and I got along with everyone. The first semester of my freshman year, I was playing volleyball. I had games at least two days a week, and practice everyday after school. The first semester was almost over, Thanksgiving had passed and Christmas was right around the…

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    Will Davis Early Life

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    like it was his last game. Day in and day out he left it all on the court. Will’s father, Steve instilled this work ethic in him since day one. Steve was a pretty good basketball player himself. He never played college, but he excelled at the high school level. Steve and Wil both shared the same dream, to play at the University of Kentucky. It didn’t work out for Steve, so he decided he’d do everything in his power to help his son reach that elite…

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    or Jen as some like to call her, was born July 24th, 1970, in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois. Jen Townsend was the name she grew up with through out her high school and college career, but on October 7th, 1995, her life changed when she married David Claeys, a man from a town smaller than the size of her entire high school. They met at Western Illinois University, where she attended college, and majoring in business. After about three years of marriage she delivered a baby girl…

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    “In 2008, when President Barack Obama first took office, more than 1 million students didn 't finish high school. In 2012, just under 750,000 failed to graduate, representing a 27 percent reduction… ”These common-sense policy changes had a near immediate effect,” the groups wrote… What 's more, from 2008 to 2012, the latest year which comparable data is available, the national high school graduation rate rose from 74.7 percent to 80.9 percent, and there 's new data to suggest that trend will…

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    Years ago college in our world was not as popular as it is now. More and more young people are going to college after high school and will be the first in their family to do so. In her article “A Case Against College” Linda Lee brings up that college is not necessary. She points out all the negative aspects of college and none of the positive. She fails to grasp the reality that college is important and that its importance should not be downplayed. People should not take this article to heart.…

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    response usually falls along the lines of “because the school is pretty,” or “I wanted a big school that was near a city,” or my personal favorite “because National Treasure Two: Book of Secrets was filmed on campus” (pro-tip: some cute boys do not find that answer funny). The thing is, I am not entirely sure why I chose to attend Maryland. Compared to the majority of people, my college application process was somewhat untraditional. Throughout high school, my spring breaks,…

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